Colossians 1:9

The Passion Translation

Since we first heard about you, we’ve kept you always in our prayers that you would receive the perfect knowledge of God’s pleasure over your lives, making you reservoirs of every kind of wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Cross References

Psalm 119:99

You have given me more understanding than those who teach me, for I’ve absorbed your eye-opening revelation.

Psalm 143:10

I just want to obey all you ask of me. So teach me, Lord, for you are my God. Your gracious Spirit is all I need, so lead me on good paths that are pleasing to you, my one and only God!

John 7:17

If you want to test my teachings and discover where I received them, first be passionate to do God’s will, and then you will be able to discern if my teachings are from the heart of God or from my own opinions.

Acts 12:5

The church went into a season of intense intercession, asking God to free him.

Romans 12:2

Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.

1 Corinthians 1:5

In him you have been made extravagantly rich in every way. You have been endowed with a wealth of inspired utterance and the riches that come from your intimate knowledge of him.

Ephesians 1:8

This superabundant grace is already powerfully working in us, releasing all forms of wisdom and practical understanding.

Ephesians 5:10

Then you will learn to choose what is beautiful to our Lord.

Ephesians 5:17

And don’t live foolishly for then you will have discernment to fully understand God’s will.

Ephesians 6:6

Always do what is right and not only when others are watching, so that you may please Christ as his servants by doing his will.

Colossians 1:6

This is the wonderful message that is being spread everywhere, powerfully changing hearts throughout the earth, just like it has changed you! Every believer of this good news bears the fruit of eternal life as they experience the reality of God’s grace.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ live in you richly, flooding you with all wisdom. Apply the Scriptures as you teach and instruct one another with the Psalms, and with festive praises, and with prophetic songs given to you spontaneously by the Spirit, so sing to God with all your hearts!

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is also from Colossae, sends his loving greetings. I can tell you that he is a true servant of Christ, who always labors and intercedes for you. His prayers are filled with requests to God that you would grow and mature, standing complete and perfect in the beauty of God’s plan for your lives. Epaphras has such great zeal and passion for you and for those who are from Laodicea and from Hierapolis.

Colossians 4:5

Walk in the wisdom of God as you live before the unbelievers, and make it your duty to make him known.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

For we remember before our God and Father how you put your faith into practice, how your love motivates you to serve others, and how unrelenting is your hope-filled patience in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Make your life a prayer.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

With this in mind, we constantly pray that our God will empower you to live worthy of all that he has invited you to experience. And we pray that by his power all the pleasures of goodness and all works inspired by faith would fill you completely.

Philemon 1:4

I am always thankful to my God as I remember you in my prayers

Philemon 1:6

I pray for you that the faith we share may effectively deepen your understanding of every good thing that belongs to you in Christ.

Hebrews 10:36

You need the strength of endurance to reveal the poetry of God’s will and then you receive the promise in full.

Hebrews 13:21

may he work perfection into every part of you giving you all that you need to fulfill your destiny. And may he express through you all that is excellent and pleasing to him through your life-union with Jesus the Anointed One who is to receive all glory forever! Amen!

James 1:5

And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is always pure, filled with peace, considerate and teachable. It is filled with love and never displays prejudice or hypocrisy in any form

1 Peter 2:15

For it is God’s will for you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.

1 Peter 4:2

So live the rest of your earthly life no longer concerned with human desires but consumed with what brings pleasure to God.

1 John 2:17

This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has made our understanding come alive so that we can know by experience the One who is true. And we are in him who is true, God’s Son, Jesus Christ—the true God and eternal life!